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Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test
The Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (KBIT) is a brief intelligence test measuring verbal and nonverbal ability in about 20 minutes, used for screening rather than diagnosis.
Kawthoolei
Kawthoolei is the homeland envisioned by Karen nationalists in southeastern Myanmar, meaning "the land without darkness." The Karen National Union has claimed and partly governed it since 1949.
Kay Adroa
Kay Adroa, second wife of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, a Makerere student daughter of Reverend Adroa, married in Arua in 1966, divorced 1974, found dead August 13, 1974.
Kayan people (Myanmar)
Kayan (ကယန်း), also called Padaung or Long-Neck Karen, a Karenic people of Kayah State, Myanmar, with subgroups Padaung, Ghekho, Yinbaw, Zayein, Gheba; known for women's brass neck rings, 1897 Latin-script literature, and refugee tourism villages in Thailand.
Kayastha (कायस्थ)
Kayastha (कायस्थ) are north, central, and east Indian scribal communities traditionally tied to writing, administration, and record-keeping, distinguished by contested varna rank, high colonial-era literacy, and regional groups such as Bengali, Bihari, and Chitraguptavanshi Kayasthas.
Kayla Mueller
Kayla Jean Mueller (1988–2015) was an American humanitarian aid worker from Prescott, Arizona, kidnapped by ISIS in Aleppo on August 4, 2013, held about 18 months, and confirmed dead in February 2015 after ISIS claimed a Jordanian airstrike killed her.
Kazakhs
Kazakhs (қазақтар) are the Turkic majority people of Kazakhstan: 13.4 million and 70.4% of the population at the 2021 census, historically nomadic herders, heirs of the 15th-century Kazakh Khanate, with a script history of Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic.
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey is a 2022 Netflix four-episode documentary, directed by Rachel Dretzin, on Warren Jeffs's rise and fall in the FLDS, told through ex-member testimonies and his 2011 life-sentence conviction.
Keeping up with the Joneses
Keeping up with the Joneses: idiom for matching neighbors' spending, from Arthur "Pop" Momand's 1913 New York Globe comic strip; in economics, Duesenberry's term for relative-consumption preferences.
Keirsey Temperament Sorter
The Keirsey Temperament Sorter (KTS) is a self-report personality questionnaire developed by American psychologist David Keirsey and first published in 1978, classifying people into four temperaments.
Keith O'Brien (author)
Keith O'Brien (born 1973) is an American journalist and New York Times bestselling narrative nonfiction author of Outside Shot, Fly Girls, Paradise Falls, Charlie Hustle, and Heartland; winner of the 2025 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography.
Keith Robinson (environmentalist)
Keith Robinson (born 1941) is an American environmentalist, co-owner with brother Bruce of Niihau island, Hawaii, and operator of the Kauai Wildlife Refuge for endangered native plants; Niihau Aha Moku Advisory Committee representative.
Kel Ahaggar
The Kel Ahaggar are a Tuareg confederation of the Hoggar massif in southern Algeria, formed in the mid-17th century and defeated by the French in 1902.
Kel Ajjer
Kel Ajjer, also written Kel Azjer, is one of the major Tuareg confederations of the northern Sahara, based on the Tassili n'Ajjer plateau of southeastern Algeria and southwestern Libya.
Kel Owey
The Kel Owey, also spelled Kel Ewey or Kel Owi, are a Tuareg tribe of the Aïr massif in northern Niger, dominant in the region from about 1760 to 1860.
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (Posie Parker), British anti-trans activist born 1974, founder of Standing for Women and the Let Women Speak rallies; her 2023 Australasia tour drew neo-Nazis in Melbourne and was shut down in Auckland.
Kelsey Barnard Clark
Kelsey Barnard Clark is an American chef from Dothan, Alabama, winner of Top Chef season 16 (Kentucky, 2019), the fifth woman and first southerner to win, owner of KBC restaurant, and author of Southern Grit.
Ken Bone (activist)
Ken Bone (Kenneth Bone), Illinois power plant worker and undecided voter who went viral after asking an energy question at the October 9, 2016 second presidential debate in a red IZOD sweater; later Uber ad backlash and Reddit AMA controversy.
Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber (Kenneth Earl Wilber) is an American author and creator of Integral Theory, known as AQAL, an effort to synthesize psychology, systems theory, and the world's mystical traditions.
Kennedy curse
Kennedy curse: popular label for the deaths and scandals of the Kennedy political family, coined by media after Ted Kennedy's 1969 Chappaquiddick accident; covers Joe Jr.'s 1944 death, the JFK and RFK assassinations, and later tragedies, though skeptics call it a media myth.
Kennel club
Kennel club: national dog registry organization (e.g., The Kennel Club UK, 1873; American Kennel Club, 1884; FCI federation) that maintains pedigree stud books, publishes breed standards, governs dog shows, and manages breeding health rules.
Kennewick Man
Kennewick Man, the Ancient One to five Columbia Plateau tribes, is a roughly 8,500-year-old adult male skeleton found in 1996 in the Columbia River, Washington. His 2015 genome showed Native American ancestry, closest to the Colville, leading to NAGPRA repatriation and reburial in 2017.
Kenosha unrest
The Kenosha unrest, August 2020: protests and rioting after police shot Jacob Blake, ending in the Kyle Rittenhouse shootings that killed two and wounded one.
Kenosha unrest shooting
Kenosha unrest shooting: Kyle Rittenhouse's fatal August 25, 2020 shootings of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz during Kenosha protests after Jacob Blake's police shooting; Rittenhouse acquitted in 2021.
Kerala model
Kerala model: development pattern named after Kerala, India (term from the 1975 CDS/UN study led by K. N. Raj). High literacy, life expectancy, and health at low income via land reform, public healthcare, and education, with criticized fiscal and industrial limits.
Kessler Psychological Distress Scale
The Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10, with a six-item short form, the K6) is a free questionnaire measuring nonspecific psychological distress, developed by Ronald C. Kessler in 2002.
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter (1960-1994), South African photojournalist of the Bang Bang Club, won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for his 1993 Sudan photograph of a starving child with a vulture, published by the New York Times, and died by suicide months later.
Kevin Spacey sexual misconduct allegations
Kevin Spacey sexual misconduct allegations: accusations beginning with Anthony Rapp in October 2017, the Old Vic inquiry, US and UK criminal cases ending in acquittal or dismissal, the $31 million MRC arbitration, and civil settlements.
Khadija bint Khuwaylid (خديجة بنت خويلد)
Khadija bint Khuwaylid (خديجة بنت خويلد), died 619 CE, was a wealthy Meccan merchant of the Quraysh, first and for 25 years only wife of the Prophet Muhammad, his employer before prophethood, first convert to Islam, and financier of the early Muslim community.
Khadijah Farrakhan
Khadijah Farrakhan (Betsy Ross, 1936-2026), Mother Khadijah, First Lady of the Nation of Islam, wife of Louis Farrakhan for 72 years, married 1953, nine children, spoke at the 1997 Million Woman March.